Bandelier National Monument

The Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre US national monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos Counties, New Mexico. It is located on the slopes of the volcanic Jemez Mountains, and over 70% of the monument is wilderness. It was designated as a national monument on 11 February 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson, and it was named for the Swiss anthropologist Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier.